Saving Pix's To Desktop problem

[Robert4]

Hi,

Here's a weird one. Really stumped, but it is probably something
very simple that I am, as usual, missing.
Have an iMac and running High sierra.

I open an image up from Google Photos, and do the Save As routine.
Give it a name.
Tell it to save to desktop.
All verified, as I have done this exact same thing zillions of times.

Never appears, any more, on the Desktop.
Tried others, same thing.

**What's really interesting is if I try to do it again with a picture that
I've tried a short time ago, it tells me it already exists on the Desktop (or in a desktop Folder)
and do I want to overwrite it ?

But none of them are on the Desktop. Or anyplace else I can think of looking.

Has always worked fine.

Any idea what might have changed ?
Or what I'm doing wrong, or missing ?

Thanks,
Bob

 

[jerwin]

do they pop up in Recents?

 

[Robert4]

Hi,

No.

Thanks for help.

Again, the really interesting thing is that if i try to do again with the same photo, later, it tells me it already exists on the Desktop.

Bob

 

[kohlson]

A couple of comments:
- Have you tried rebooting?
- Have you tried using Finder to locate? In Desktop? Searching by name?

 

[DeltaMac]

If you save your photo to the desktop, does it appear in your Desktop folder (that's in your user folder.) It should have exactly the same items that appear on your desktop, but won't show some kinds of items that appear on your desktop, but are not actually in the desktop (folder), such as mounted drives.

Do you have the same problem when you save a photo to a folder that is on your desktop? Does it always appear in that folder (as you would expect)?

 

[cwanja]

Can you find the file in Spotlight? It should also show the path to it.

 

[Robert4]

Hi all,

The "ReStart" reboot did it.
They all show now on the Desktop.

Would sure like to understand what happened, and why they didn't before.
Is this a known or common problem ?
Or,...?

BTW: They did Not show previously anywhere in the Finder, or via Spotlight. Pretty sure of this.

So, where were they "hiding"?

Again, thanks all for suggestions and help.
Much appreciated,
Bob

 

[cwanja]

A Google search seems to show that this is a common bug in High Sierra.

Another test - if you try and save file to the Desktop, confirm they are not there. Launch a Terminal and execute the following commands:

cd ~/Desktop
ls -alt

Those are TWO commands, executed separately. They will not remove anything. Once you run the ls command, do your files list in the Terminal window?